This is an archived version of the Formal Theory Virtual Workshop sessions that took place in 2022.
Monday, February 7
Don’t Know What To Do
- Benjamin Blumenthal, “Is More Information Good for Voters?”
- Peter Schram (with Brenton Kenkel), “Uncertainty in Crisis Bargaining with Multiple Policy Options”
Monday, February 14
Look What You Made Me Do
- David Foster, “Theory and empirics on lobbying friends and enemies”
- Clement Minaudier, “Friendly Lobbying Under Time Pressure”
Monday, February 21
Bad Blood
- Dan McGee, “Mestizaje in Plantation Economies”
- Afiq bin Oslan, “Persistent and Self-Perpetuating Political Differences between Neighbouring Communities”
Monday, February 28
Violent Delights
- Martin Castillo Quintana, “Conflict, reputation, and property rights of organized criminal gangs”
- Jason Davis, “Targeted Sanctions and Redistribution”
Monday, March 7
You Oughta Know
- Carlo Prato, “The Institutional Foundations of the Power to Persuade”
Monday, March 14
Time After Time
- Peter Bils (with Federica Izzo), “Policymaking in Times of Crisis”
Monday, March 21
Telephone
- Antoine Zerbini, “The Case for Lobbying Transparency”
- Collin Schumock (with Keith Schnakenberg and Ian Turner), “Dark Money and Voter Learning”
Monday, March 28
Digital Witness
- Maria Titova, “Targeted Advertising in Elections”
- Greg Sasso, “Platform Competition with Voting Costs”
Monday, April 4
Disturbia
- Bianca Sanesi, “Social stigma and status concerns can produce rational generosity”
- Arda Gitmez (with Konstantin Sonin), “A Theory of Repression and Propaganda”
Monday, April 11
SOLO
- Monika Nalepa, “The appeal of appeals: A model of post-authoritarian purges of the security apparatus”
- Felix Dwinger, “How Personalist Dictators Survive”
Monday, April 18
Greedy
- Francis William Meda, “Dictators’ Tenure and Their Economic Performance”
- Congyi Zhou, “How propaganda and censorship cause the global media competition”
Monday, April 25
Playing With Fire
- Mehdi Shadmehr (with Arda Gitmez and James Robinson), “Executive Constraint in the Islamic Civilization”
- Federico Trombetta (with Helios Herrera), “ALTERNATIVE WORLDVIEWS, DISTRUST, AND POPULISM”
Monday, May 2
Zombie
- Gabriel Leon, “How rulers stay in power: autocrats, mass movements and the secret police”
- Federica Izzo (with Peter Bils), “Crisis Dynamics and Political Control”
Monday, May 9
Future Nostalgia
- Zuheir Desai, “How Do Gender Quotas Impact Accountability?”
- Umberto Mignozzetti, “Electoral Competition, Public Goods Provision, and Incentives for Political Corruption”
Monday, May 16
Cool for the Summer
- Amy Basu, TBD
- Francesco Squintani (with Torun Dewan), “Choosing political advisers”
- Arseniy Samsonov, “How can social media limit disinformation?”
Monday, May 23
Cool for the Summer, the Remix
- Sofía Correa (with Gaétan Nandong and Mehdi Shadmehr), “Grievance Shocks and Coordination in Collective Action”
- Anna Denisenko (with Catherine Hafer and Dmitri Landa), “Competence and Advice”
Monday, September 26
- Georgy Egorov, “Electoral College and Electoral Fraud”
- Chiara Aina, “Tailored Stories”
Monday, October 3
- Ethan Bueno de Mesquita & Wioletta Dziuda, “Partisan Traps”
- Kayleigh McCrary, “Early Voting and Late-Election Information”
Monday, October 10
- Noam Reich & Kristopher Ramsay, “Conservation for Sale: International Bargaining over Payment for Ecosystem Services”
- Edoardo Grillo & Antonio Nicolò, “Learning it the hard way: Conflicts, economic sanctions and military aids”
Monday, October 17
- Jean Guillaume Forand, “Elections with Job-Motivated Bureaucrats”
- Benjamin Blumenthal, “Policymaking under Influence”
Monday, October 24
- Dan McGee, “Stereotypes Under Group Competition”
- Giovanni Andreottola & Barton E. Lee, “Legislative hostage-taking”
Monday, October 31
- Congyi Zhou, “Interactions among Simultaneous Elections”
- Carlo Prato & Peter Buisseret, “Politics Transformed? Electoral Competition under Ranked Choice Voting”
Monday, November 7
- Jessica Sun, “The Bad Implications of Good Intentions”
- Haonan Dong, “The Politics of Delay in Crisis Negotiation”
Monday, November 14
- Álvaro Delgado-Vega, “Which Side are You On? Interest Groups and Relational Contracts”
- Federico Vaccari, “Efficient Communication in Organizations”
Monday, November 21
- Peter Schram, Andrew Coe, & Heesun Yoo, “For Whom Terror Works”
- Yu Mei, “Peacemaking in the Shadow of Issue Linkage and Misaligned Interests”
Monday, November 28
- Daniel Goldstein & Milan W. Svolik, “Testing Formal Models of Political Competition: Experimental Evidence from over 50,000 Candidate-Choices”
- Francis William, “Lowering the Standards: How autocrats produce inefficiency to increase their Survival”
Monday, December 5
- Federica Izzo, Catherine Hafer, & Dimitri Landa, “Ideological argumentation”
- Ken Shotts & Alexander V. Hirsch, “Veto Players and Policy Development”
Monday, December 12
- Antoine Zerbini & Kun Heo, “The Informational Foundations of Mass Belief Manipulation”